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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 8259467" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I don't think it makes sense to talk about the darkness as transparent, but I would say that the area of the spell is both transparent and dark. We've all, I imagine, had the experience of standing in daylight at the entrance of an unlit tunnel which is dark and through which the light at the other end of the tunnel can be seen. The medium that fills the tunnel, the air, is transparent, allowing light from the end of the tunnel to reach your eyes, and yet the tunnel itself is dark. This is the same thing. I anticipate that someone might object that the tunnel has opaque walls that make it dark, which is true, but the spell area doesn't need opaque walls to make it dark because its darkness is created by magic.So let's say the spell is cast 60 feet above the caster in mid-air (which is completely possible according to the spell description). Looking up, I imagine the caster would see a black ring defining the outside of the sphere, with the blackness fading towards its center where the blue sky beyond could be seen as through a dark tunnel.</blockquote>